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In fact, I’d go as far as to call him the mad professor of two-strokes Down Under, writes Jeff Ware.

Since the May 2018 issue of CMM we’ve been following our Aussie mate Jeff Ware’s loving restoration of his great, late mate Helmut Phillip’s Suzuki RG500.

It may have been nearly 200bhp and needed extra weight adding to get up to the 130kg minimum, but the Elf 500 was born of sidecar tech. Kind of. The heart of any motorcycle is

If there’s a better-looking motorcycle out there

Until 1981 many looked down on 125s with scorn; with a change in the law eighth of a litre bikes were the new teenage icons of desire.

If there’s anything better than a big powerful bike, it’s a small powerful bike.

Scoop rides a bike he almost bought and comes away smiling: Suzuki’s GT250 Ram Air…

Scoop rides the very British take on Honda’s XBR500.

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride”; If you’re into 1970s classics then that phrase may strike a chord with you when run alongside Suzuki’s GT550. For reasons that are as biased as they are inaccurate,

Some nations seem to exude certain qualities almost as a national stereotype…